Jason Fairbourne is a

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business consultant and educator. He is the founder of the Fairbourne Consulting Group, and is a Peery Fellow at the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance at

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Marriott School of Management The Marriott School of Business is the business school of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and located in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1891 and renamed i ...

. He is an advocate for

microfranchising Microfranchising is a business model that applies elements and concepts of traditional franchising to small businesses in the developing world. It refers to the systemization and replication of micro-enterprises. Microfranchising is broadly defined ...

, defined as the systematization and replication of microenterprises in developing markets. Fairbourne is the author of ''MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid.''

Bibliography

Books and articles by Jason Fairbourne: * Fairbourne, Jason S., Gibson, Stephen W. & Gibb, W.: ''MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid''. Edward Elgar Pub, 2008, * Fairbourne, Jason, ‘Microfranchising’, Marriott Alumni Magazine, Summer 2007, Marriott School, Brigham Young University, at https://web.archive.org/web/20110719155524/http://marriottschool.byu.edu/marriottmag/summer07/features/atwork1.cfm (accessed May 15, 2008) * Fairbourne, Jason, Lisa J. Christensen, and David Lehr. "A Good Business for Poor People." Stanford Social Innovation Review (2010): 43-49.

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